what not to do to your 45...

[BinaryDude]

Well I know i have been afk for a while, just to much going on at home. I just finally got to figure out what happened to Oswald several months ago...

turns out i came up with a great way to remove the wheel from the truck without taking off the lug nuts....

Well atleast this is better then having to drop in a new tranny or rear diff...

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

loose lug nuts? Drivers side? or did you have spacers on it?

 

[BinaryDude]

It is on the Drivers Side (RHD truck) and the lugnuts were tight. I used spidertrack spacers on it with new lug nuts torque to the correct specs. I just think that the 29yo bolts could not stand up to the stress. I'm just glad this is a FF rear... otherwise it would have been real bad...

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

I've seen drivers side (right side in normal vehicles) rear tire pass us before when using a spacer and a locker. the locker kept apparently torquing it somehow and it got loose. I was just curious about the side.
Locker or not? At least it's an easy fix and nobody got hurt!

 

[40Flipper]

Wow. Glad you're ok. My mechanic refused to put spacers on my truck (long time ago) because he thinks they are dangerous. Now I know why.

 

[Leaping Deer]

Yeah I wouldn't use spacers either after seeing what happend to Fogblanket at the Fall Gathering this year. He was lucky he was able to drive the LV home.

 

[dkroth]

Got any close-ups of the fractured studs?

 

[BinaryDude]

I've seen drivers side (right side in normal vehicles) rear tire pass us before when using a spacer and a locker. the locker kept apparently torquing it somehow and it got loose. I was just curious about the side.
Locker or not? At least it's an easy fix and nobody got hurt!

There is no locker in there that i know of...

Wow. Glad you're ok. My mechanic refused to put spacers on my truck (long time ago) because he thinks they are dangerous. Now I know why.

I'm very glad that my son and I are ok. I had just dropped him off at school 15 minutes before i think the final one broke. As for the spacers, I'm just happy i had them on there, if not for the spacer then the wheel would have fallen off. I'm not sure the spacer caused it yet...

Yeah I wouldn't use spacers either after seeing what happend to Fogblanket at the Fall Gathering this year. He was lucky he was able to drive the LV home.

Man, what i miss being away for a while...

Got any close-ups of the fractured studs?

that is next. it looks the my that metal fatique killed 5 of them when I tightened them down or soon after, and that one was left holding the wheel.

 

[Chamba]

I have a new set of Marlin spacers which 2manycruisers just forded to me from home.... maybe they will stay in the box. Wow. Glad you are alright.

Josh